realized in has material basis at all times has occurrent part heart valve disorder heart valve pathological process heart valve disease Heart valve disease is a heart disease described as any disease process involving one or more of the valves of the heart (the aortic and mitral valves on the left and the pulmonary and tricuspid valves on the right). Valve problems may be congenital (inborn) or acquired (due to another cause later in life). SNOMEDCT_2010_1_31:368009 NCI:C45525 DOID:4079 disease_ontology SNOMEDCT_2010_1_31:195013005 MSH:D006349 UMLS_CUI:C0018824 Valvular heart disease (disorder) A disease affecting a valve of the heart. disease disease course